Perinatal Hospice

Championed by two Twin Cities physicians from opposite sides of the abortion debate while the state's leading pro- and antichoice and groups remained silent on the matter, the Fatal Fetal Anomaly Amendment has been hailed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune as a "tiny patch of common ground" on perhaps the most divisive issue in American politics today. Promoted by antiabortion activists as a way to save women from the grief of pregnancy termination and affirm the status of the fetus as an equal and valued human being, perinatal hospice is part of their ongoing effort to limit access to abortion services and cast a pall of moral reproach over an ever-widening number of women.